An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. And if, in the end, we all end up blind and toothless, at least nobody will be better off than you.
Revenge only feels good if you believe yourself justified. Taking things too far is what produces the guilt and remorse. If you are able to control yourself and stay within your own moral boundaries, you will find very little problems in dealing with your own concience.
I suppose people think revenge is petty, but can you really say that people are not entitled? If someone murders my mother, what right does anyone have to tell me I cannot murder their mother in exactly the same fashion? It is a simple exchange of wrongdoing, returning the system to equilibrium.
I suppose at this point people will retort that it's against the law - but laws are designed to keep people in line. They will often err on the conservative side of caution and forgiveness.
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Sure I have a heart; it's floating in a jar in my closet, along with my tonsils, my appendix, and all of the other useless organs I ripped out.
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